december/january JENNIFER BRESNICK is a 2007 graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a major in history. Born and raised on Long Island, NY, she now resides in the Boston area, fervently avoiding all discussions about professional sports. Bresnick’s debut novel, The Last Death of Tev Chrisini, won the 2012 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Indie Book. TIM CHAPMAN is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago police department who currently teaches English composition and Chinese martial arts. He holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review, the Chicago Reader, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the anthology, “The Rich and the Dead.” JOSEPH DORAZIO began writing poetry in 2007. Since then, his poems have won awards, and have appeared in over 30 literary magazines in the U.S. Joseph Dorazio’s first two chapbook collections were finalists in poetry competitions, and in 2009, his poem, “The Tree of Life” was set to music by the composer, Eleanor Aversa, in response to the Dialogues with Darwin Poetry Project, at the American Philosophical Society Museum in Philadelphia. Mr. Dorazio lives and writes in Wayne, Pa. ROBERT HERSCHBACH is the author of Loose Weather, published in Fall 2013 from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. His poems have appeared in Fine Madness, Eclipse, Fugue, Gargoyle, Natural Bridge, Painted Bride Quarterly, South Carolina Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Subtropics, Quarterly West, West Branch and other journals. MELISSA JOULWAN writes the blog The Clothes Make The Girl (theclothesmakethegirl.com). She has authored four books and contributed to a New York Times bestseller: It Starts With Food. After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and food as the enemy, Joulwan found the paleo diet in 2009 and has been happily, healthily following it ever since. DAWN LONSINGER is a poet and essayist and the author of two chapbooks: the linoleum crop (chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the 2007 Jeanne Duval Editions Chapbook Contest), and The Nested Object (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her full-length collection of poems, Whelm, won Lost Horse Press’s 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry. NANCY PEACOCK’s first book, Life Without Water was published in 1996 and chosen as a New York Times Notable
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Book. It was followed a few years later by Home Across the Road. Her third book, and her first work of nonfiction, was taken from her experiences of living as an artist and a maid. A Broom of One’s Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life was published by Harper Collins in April 2008. DAN SHEEHAN served as a Marine Officer from 1996 to 2007. An AH-1W pilot by trade, he deployed aboard the 13th MEU (SOC) in 2000 and the 11th MEU (SOC) in 2002. During those deployments he participated in operations in East Timor, Yemen, and in various countries in the Middle East. In 2003 he flew close air support missions during the invasion of Iraq and in 2004 served in Baghdad as a Forward Air Controller with Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One. HILARY SLOIN began her writing career as a playwright in the 80s. Her plays, which were mostly gay-themed and fairly subversive, were widely produced in the U.S. After a time, she switched to essays and short fiction, publishing in many small journals and anthologies and attending a number of residencies. Sloin has recently completed a collection of short fiction entitled The Cure for Unhappiness and is currently at work on a manuscript about selling antiques, Pimpin’ the Frontier. MARGARET SCHUHYLER STERNBERGH lived from 1887 until 1982. Her father, James Hervey Sternbergh, was the founder of the Reading Bolt and Nut Works which later became Bethlehem Steel. Her mother, Mary Candace Dodds, was the oldest of twelve children born on a farm in Burlington, Vermont. Margaret, or Mardi as she was known, attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. as a teenager, and then boarding school in Weisbaden, Germany. She was an independent spirit, an artist, a musician and a poet. KATHLEEN WHEATON has worked for 25 years as a journalist and travel writer, and lived for 12 years in Spain and Latin America. Her journalism and interviews have been published in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Examiner, Town & Country, European Travel & Life, Via, Smithsonian and the Paris Review. She has been the recipient of three Maryland Arts Council grants. In 2013 she received the Washington Writers Publishing House award for fiction. Shelf Unbound is published bimonthly by Shelf Media Group LLC, 3322 Greenview Drive, Garland, TX 75044. Copyright 2013 by Shelf Media Group LLC. Subscriptions are FREE, go to www.shelfmediagroup.com to subscribe.
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